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New Order Members Assemble Joy Division Box, Tour

Heartandsoul collects legendary post-punk group's two albums, B-sides, rarities.

British post-punk legends Joy Division will receive the box-set treatment in August with a collection that includes both of their albums as well as singles, B-sides and rarities from the gloom-rockers' short but illustrious career.

The four-disc set, Heartandsoul, appeared in the United Kingdom in 1998. This marks its first U.S. release. Disc one contains the band's 1979 debut Unknown Pleasures and singles including "Digital." Disc two features Closer, which Joy Division finished recording shortly before lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself in 1980, and the band's signature song "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

Disc three contains the band's first EP, An Ideal for Living, and radio sessions previously unreleased in the United States. The final disc culls previously unavailable live material from four concerts.

Following Curtis' death, surviving members Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris went on to form New Order. All three musicians helped select the contents of Heartandsoul, according to their U.S. manager. New Order will release their first album in eight years, Getready, on October 16 (see [article id="1444044"]"Primal Scream, Billy Corgan Getready To Help Out New Order"[/article]).

The band will also make four appearances with Moby's Area:One festival tour. They'll be joined by former Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who guests on the Getready track "Turn My Way."

Area:One dates featuring New Order:

  • 7/31 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
  • 8/2 - Vancouver, BC @ Thunderbird Stadium
  • 8/3 - George, WA @ The Gorge
  • 8/5 - Devore, CA @ G.H. Blockbuster Pavilion
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